K-Meleon Browser for Windows Released

WebKnowHow
Thursday, August 17, 2006; 02:48 AM

K-Meleon v1.0 is a standalone Gecko-based browser for Windows, designed to be light, fast and highly customisable. K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License.

The first non-beta release is based on the Mozilla 1.8.0.5 code base (the same as Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.5) and introduces many new features, including a find bar, autocomplete in the URL bar, site icon support, new preference panels and many other improvements and bug fixes. K-Meleon uses the win32 API to build the interface, while Firefox uses the XML User Interface Language.  Thus, K-Meleon's CPU and memory requirements are lower and it can run on older machines.

The K-Meleon 1.0 Release Notes have more details and a full K-Meleon 1.0 changelog is also available at http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/.  The browser is freely available to download and use.